390 women are planning to run for the House of Representatives. Traister points out, "Twenty-two of them are non-incumbent black women — for scale, there are only 18 black women in the House right now." Forty-nine women are expected to run for senator.

Run for Something — launched last year to recruit first-time candidates younger than 35 — expected around 100 people to sign up in year one. Instead, 15,000 did.

VoteRunLead, which trains female candidates for local and state-level offices, said, that usually two-thirds of its resources are devoted to persuading women to run, with a goal of tapping 2,000 women nationwide. But in 2017, 3,200 women were trained by VoteRunLead and over 10,000 contacted the group unsolicited.